anyway, because at this store, they would give them out to whoever had the best faction decks). Anyway, for this even, I was playing my Green/Blue Standard Infect Homebrew, that had not yet seen the light of day. For those not in the know, here’s the list:

We’ll go round by round, but for an overview, I went 3-2 on the day and came in 9th place. Not too shabby for an $11 deck that had never been in a tournament before, if I do say so myself. Anyway, on to the matchups.

Round 1 vs. Mono-Green RampI went 0-2 in this round. He smashed my face in both of the games. He was using Joraga Treespeaker

for his Eldrazi creatures. I put up not much of a fight in Game 1, not even playing a permanent due to mana screw and bad draws. Game 2, I got him to 8 Poison Counters and stalled out, unable to draw into my Distortion Strike

’d, and he played a second Glissa just to kill the first. He won Game 1, but the next two games he got mana screwed and I infected him easily.

Round 3 vs. Mono-White Caw-BladeThis was one of the matchups about which I was most nervous. Caw-Blade is a strong deck in the format, and I was not very eager to get the crap beaten out of me. However, despite his Mirran Crusader

ZWQgQWdlbnQ=s took him down. In game two, I mulliganed down to 4. That’s right. I mulliganed down to 4. That hand had no land in it. A four-land hand with no land. I was on the draw. Next three turns I draw land, land, and land, and I get out some infect dudes. He started to burn back, got out a Valakut, burned down my Hydra, and I went down to 7. Thanks to some luck, he went to Red Sun’s Zenith me for lethal, but I had the Corrupted Resolve

combo and combo’d out on turn 3, hitting me for 502. He was really nice about it, though, as he had knocked me down to 9th place and was a really cool dude. He talked with me for a while in between the round and the standings about my deck and we thought up some cool stuff I can use in the future.

That was my day. I walked away 3-2 with two new promo cards and some great ideas about where to take this deck in the future. Hope you enjoyed.

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